On 10 April 2013, Paul Havinga and Nirvana Meratnia were invited to participate in a debate session on future of underwater sensor networks. The debate was organized in the context of Sense of Contact congress taking place in Soesterberg, The Netherlands.

PS participated and showcased its research outcome related to wireless structural health monitoring and underwater sensor networks in the Hannover Messe, which took place on 8-12 April in Hannover, Germany. During the five days exhibition, hardware and software platforms and techniques developed in the context of WiBrate and GENESI (for wireless structural health monitoring), as well as CLAM and SeaSTAR (for underwater sensor networks) were presented. Various contacts with research and industry were made and possible further collaborations were discussed.

On 4 April 2013, Paul Havinga gave a keynote speech in the context of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP 2013) in Melbourne, Australia. In his presentation he spoke about challenges and trends of wireless structural health monitoring and presented the methods developed in two EU projects of PS, namely WiBrate and GENESI.

On 1 March 2013, PS delegate participated in the Future Internet workshop organized in the context of PPP projects in Barcelona, Spain. During this workshop, PS exchanged its expertise and experience in various domains including safety, transport and logistics, energy efficient buildings, and environmental monitoring using wireless sensor networks with a number of participating organizations.